Don DeLillo Fiction Quotations

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read. I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.